Sends messages to slack's incoming webhooks via CLI
Project description
CLI tool to send messages to the Incoming webhook of Slack (https://slack.com).
Help
usage: slacksend [-h] [-V] [-C CONFIG] [-c CHANNEL] [-U URL] [-u USERNAME] [-i ICON] [message] Sends messages to slack's incoming webhooks via CLI positional arguments: message The message to send. If not specified it will be read from STDIN optional arguments: -h, --help show this help message and exit -V, --version show program's version number and exit -C CONFIG, --config CONFIG Use a different configuration file -c CHANNEL, --channel CHANNEL Send to this channel -U URL, --url URL Slack webhook URL -u USERNAME, --username USERNAME Username -i ICON, --icon ICON Icon
Configuration file
The only required option to start sending messages to slack is the webhook url. You can either set this in a configurations file (globally in /etc/slacksend.conf or locally in $HOME/.slacksend.conf) or specify it on the CLI with the –url argument.
This is an example of a configuration file for slacksend:
[DEFAULT] url = https://hooks.slack.com/services/XXXXXXXXX/XXXXXXXXX/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX icon = :ghost: username = This is a bot channel = @myself
Example usage
echo "Hello world!" | slacksend -U https://hooks.slack.com/services/XXX slacksend -U https://hooks.slack.com/services/XXX "Hello world!"
LICENSE
Copyright (c) 2014 Massimiliano Torromeo
slacksend is free software released under the terms of the BSD license.
See the LICENSE file provided with the source distribution for full details.
Contacts
Massimiliano Torromeo <massimiliano.torromeo@gmail.com>
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